“Then why would I let him near my daughter? You’ll take care of her.”
“Did you talk to her about this?”
“Not exactly, but I think she knows it’s what I want.”
My head is spinning. Marry Lucia? I have a hooker about to move into my apartment. I just killed her father and found pictures of myself in his possession. I do not need further complications.
“Does she want it?”
“Ah, Evan.” Rinaldo smiles and shakes his head at me. “Don’t you know all the women want you?”
I pull back a little.
“What, sir?”
“Look in the mirror sometime.” He chuckles softly and keeps shaking his head. “Go now. I need some sleep.”
“Yes, sir.”
I meet Jonathan in the hall, and we both leave quietly. I glance at him as we get in the truck, and I know we’re thinking the same thing.
“He’s fading fast,” I say as I buckle up.
“Yeah.” Jonathan lights a smoke before handing me the pack. “Not sure how all this is going to play out.”
“He’s leaving it all to me.”
“Are you shitting me?” Jonathan shoves the truck back into park and turns sideways. “He’s giving it all to you? Not Beni or Lucia?”
“Lucia can’t handle it.” I light a cigarette and roll down the window a crack to blow the smoke out. “Family or not, I don’t think he really trusts Beni to run it right. He says I’m the only choice. He wants me to marry Lucia.”
“I don’t know if I should say congrats or condolences.”
“Me either. I don’t want to run it all, but I can’t exactly refuse his request. I have no idea what Lucia is going to think.”
“Damn, brotha.” He whistles long and loud. “That’s major shit.”
“I’m gonna need you.” I look at him seriously. “I don’t trust anyone else but you, not even Lucia.”
“Always, brotha.” Jonathan nods.
“You found something about the security software, didn’t you?”
“Definitely Beni,” Jonathan replies as he shifts back into gear. “I had to go through the journaling to find his profile’s footprint, but it’s definitely there.”
I have no idea what he’s talking about, but I trust he understands it.
“So we know Beni mislead you to get you out of the way before the ambush,” I say. “We also know he’s definitely in business with Joshua and skimming from Rinaldo’s profits. Joshua was in with Marcello’s gang and probably took our guns.”
“I think there’s another link on the inside,” Jonathan says.
“Who?”
“Don’t know for sure, but there has to be someone.”
“Why do you think?”
“Because Beni’s login was just part of it.”